Yes, it is good to make New Year’s resolutions, but when I close my year I always rather to look back and be grateful for all the good things that I have had in the past 12 months. This gives me a huge satisfaction feeling, because at the end of the day life is about of all the small achievements and learnings that make us, or at least me, be grateful.

At the beginning of the year I made changes in Mami Glammy, this blog that I started very shyly, but that I completely assumed this 2015. It is not only the space I have to publish anything I want, but also a tool to generate income.

My English is far from perfection, but is the way I talk, think and write in this language, and after many years of feeling insecure with it, I just let it come out in this blog the way it is. A very small achievement in my path for accepting and celebrating my perfectly imperfect life.

Even though when I came back to Miami after giving birth to Guillermo in New York, I sat down with my computer and started working, reality is that it wasn’t until Mamás Latinas ¿Qué Más? offered me a job that I could do from home that I was totally back in my professional life. Doing it with a very young baby has been a real challenge, but also a very big source of gratitude.

Even though it went on the market in 2014, it wasn’t until 2015 that my house in Santa Catarina was finally sold. I closed this cycle very nostalgic and feeling that I should have gone personally, but Guillermo was only weeks old. Now I think was the best it could have happened, and feel more light.

With a 9 months old baby, a 4 year old toddler, a full-time job, a blog, my own business, Social Couturier, that starts to take off and no family in Miami, wanting to have a tidy house 100% of the time is out of all my reality. I already accepted it.

All women have the fantasy of, if not having the greatest body after giving birth, at least getting back the one we had before. Though, this is not always easy, and if with my first daughter I could do it, with my second has been a lot more complicated. And yes, even though at 44 I am not back in my old body, I took a huge weight off my shoulders accepting the one I have now.

2015 wasn’t easy financially for us. Welcoming a new member to the family, non-planned medical expenses, Miami Real Estate prices and Mexican Peso devaluation, among other things, we really felt tight. Though, like everything in this life is just a period, and we really hope that 2016 will be better for us.

A decade ago, I started my life in United States preparing my firsts Mexican stuffed peppers known as Chiles en Nogada. This year I stuffed 80 peppers in a very good company and the number of guests who came to my annual event rised. This is a day in which I am not only happy cooking and sharing this special Mexican dish, but sharing the beautiful place in which I live.

One Sunday afternoon, my friend Ana Rosa Thillet, who works in Telemundo, and me got together in our free time to produce some short videos on how to wrap presents in an easy and cheap way. Two days later one of the videos was gone viral and got a reach of more than 100 million people and more than 50 millions had click on it so far.

This viral phenomenon and what we learned of it deserves another post for itself, but I’ll share with you that the satisfaction that I got from this little tiny trick that was useful to so many people. My thankfulness can’t be measure in millions, it is infinite.

I have drawn since I remember. In 2007 I made my graphic novel first chapter that stills undone, though it was until this 2015 when my drawings came back thanks to Mamás Latinas generosity that has embraced them in its pages and in its YouTube Channel. I am so grateful for this!